Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, Հատոր 1Sherman, 1824 |
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Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. From ... Charles Caleb Colton Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1823 |
Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think, Հատոր 1 Charles Caleb Colton Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1828 |
Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. From ... Charles Caleb Colton Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1823 |
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Էջ ix - That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
Էջ 105 - I concluded that the animal had lost one tooth, because, wherever it had grazed, a small tuft of herbage was left uninjured in the centre of its bite.
Էջ 104 - had he not lost a front tooth?" said the dervise; " he had," rejoined the merchants ; "and was he not loaded with honey on one side, and wheat on the other ?"
Էջ 233 - Some read to think, — these are rare ; some to write, — these are common ; and some read to talk, — and these form the great majority. The first page of an author not unfrequently suffices...
Էջ 93 - A friend called on Michael Angelo, who was finishing a statue ; some time afterwards he called again ; the sculptor was still at his work ; his friend, looking at the figure, exclaimed, " You have been idle since I saw you last." " By no means," replied the sculptor, "I have retouched this part, and polished that; I have softened this feature, and brought out this muscle ; I have given more expression to this lip, and more energy to this limb.
Էջ 112 - ... that he attributed what little he knew, to the not having been ashamed to ask for information; and to the rule he had laid down, of conversing with all descriptions of men, on those topics chiefly that formed their own peculiar professions or pursuits.
Էջ 30 - NONE are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them ; such persons covet secrets, as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Էջ 54 - ... privations of a cottage, it has often been my lot to witness scenes of magnanimity and self-denial as much beyond the belief as the practice of the great — a heroism borrowing no support either from the gaze of the many or the admiration of the few, yet flourishing amidst ruins and on the confines of the grave; a spectacle as stupendous in the moral world as the falls of the Missouri in the natural; and, like that mighty cataract, doomed to display its grandeur only where there are no eyes...
Էջ 35 - Our riches may be taken from us by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave ; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.
Էջ 262 - TIME is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things : the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires.